From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making DocBook xml books from org mode?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:17:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475187422.3176053.741333169.0906F627@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tuajysi.fsf@fastmail.fm>
Dear Joost,
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016, at 03:23 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 29 2016, Peter Davis wrote:
> >
> > but the PDFs I'm getting still look like articles. (I copied the
> > above from some examples posted on this list a while ago. Thanks!)
>
> Your LaTeX_CLASS is set to `koma-article', so that makes sense.
>
Ah, yes! Thanks.
>
> > 2. Are there any advantages to considering MarkDown or AsciiDoc as
> > opposed to org markup? (Again, my familiarity with org is a strong
> > incentive here, but I'm willing to consider other options.)
>
> There is a (IMHO) excellent markdown-mode available on Melpa, and if you
> use Pandoc[1] to convert your documents you have a lot of flexibility.
> There's also `pandoc-mode' (of which I'm the author), a minor mode that
> makes interacting with pandoc from within Emacs easier.
>
Bravo! Thank you again.
>
> > 3. The direct route from org to DocBook xml seems to be missing. From
> > what I gather, I can get there somehow via texi (but I don't even have
> > that in org currently), or perhaps export to HTML and then convert that
> > to db xml. Am I missing something? Is there some other route I should
> > consider?
>
> Pandoc can convert to Docbook, so that might be an option. Note that
> Pandoc also converts *from* Org, (although it cannot handle all of Org's
> capabilities), so depending on your needs, that might be a way to go
> directly from Org to Docbook.
>
Thank you. I did succeed in exporting from org to texi, and then
makeinfo'ing that into a DocBook xml, though a bit of hand editing was
necessary.
>
> > 4. [LONGSHOT] Is there any way to /import/ docbook xml into org mode?
>
> Pandoc also converts *from* Docbook, and can convert *to* Org, so again,
> that might be of help.
>
> Of course, whether Pandoc can be useful to you really depends on your
> needs. Pandoc's internal document representation is based on Markdown,
> and by its very nature Markdown is more limited in it capabilities than
> Org. In essence, anything that cannot be handled by (Pandoc's version
> of) Markdown, cannot be handled by Pandoc in other formats.
>
Thanks. Sounds like Pandoc should really be in my toolkit.
>
> HTH
Definitely!
Thanks,
-pd
--
Peter Davis
www.techcurmudgeon.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 18:04 Making DocBook xml books from org mode? Peter Davis
2016-09-29 19:23 ` Joost Kremers
2016-09-29 22:17 ` Peter Davis [this message]
2016-09-30 15:44 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-02 21:23 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-02 21:35 ` Joost Kremers
2016-10-02 21:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-02 22:12 ` Joost Kremers
2016-10-03 0:32 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-03 2:09 ` Norman Walsh
2016-10-03 12:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-10-03 3:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-10-03 12:49 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 9:16 ` [DOCS] " Christian Moe
2016-09-30 14:51 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 15:33 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-09-30 15:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 19:37 ` Nick Dokos
2016-09-30 19:46 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 20:18 ` Colin Baxter
2016-09-30 20:50 ` Nick Dokos
2016-10-01 8:01 ` Colin Baxter
2016-10-05 13:32 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 9:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-09-30 14:55 ` Peter Davis
2016-09-30 17:05 ` Nick Dokos
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